This blog is a place for me to write about things that require that little bit extra to solve. We all have gaps in our knowledge and every now and then I need to reach out on search engines or blogs to find an answer. Often, these answers come from multiple sources. This blog serves as a personal resource, but if it's helpful for me I'm sure it'll help others too!

Laravel 5 Tutorials

Laravel is a modern PHP framework for building web apps. Laravel ships with lots of features that will make your life as a developer easier. First off though, we’ll be getting started with Laravel by installing our development environment. Once you’re up and running you can move on to some of the other Laravel tutorials […]

Today I thought I’d share some of the best places I’ve found for learning Laravel 5. Laracasts Laracasts is an obvious one when learning Laravel, but it’s so good it’s worth mentioning again. Well presented, easy to follow video tutorials that cover everything from the basics of Laravel to more advanced lessons. Well worth the […]

Laravel’s routing features give you a huge amount of control over your application’s URL structure. At first glance however, one question jumped out at me. Is there a way to dynamically handle base URLs while still defining others as you need to? What is Dynamic Routing? A lot of the applications I build are content […]

This is my collection of Laravel 5 tutorials and articles. From beginner’s guides to more advanced techniques. Including clear step by step guides and code examples. Whatever your experience, there should be something here for everyone.

What is Laravel?

Laravel is a modern PHP framework with beautiful, elegant code and a focus on rapid development. I fell in love with Laravel in 2015 and never looked back. I use it for every project and day to day. It’s perfect for anything from web apps and APIs to small websites.

I’m always learning new things while working with the framework, which sparked this section of tutorials. My thinking is anything I find useful someone else probably will do too. As always, if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover let me know on social media and I’ll see what I can do! Links to them can be found in the sidebar.